The ebuild is in the gamerlay overlay. emerge layman then layman -a gamerlay. then emerge steam-meta make sure you edit your make.conf to allow the gamerlay overlay. and I think you have to unmask steam-meta. The ebuild is nice because if your running an amd64 setup. it has use flags to help with flashplayer and all that 32bit jazz.

Its now in pulic beta access is free to anyone. There is only one free game available on it yet, and the vast majority of games that do have linux clients havent been made available on it yet. Its kinda pointless until they add more games. But check it out. The more people who use the beta the more likey valve will add more games. For them its all about numbers as to how worthwhile this endeavor will be.

The ebuild is in the gamerlay overlay. emerge layman then layman -a gamerlay. then emerge steam-meta make sure you edit your make.conf to allow the gamerlay overlay. and I think you have to unmask steam-meta.

Its now in pulic beta access is free to anyone. There is only one free game available on it yet, and the vast majority of games that do have linux clients havent been made available on it yet. Its kinda pointless until they add more games. But check it out. The more people who use the beta the more likey valve will add more games. For them its all about numbers as to how worthwhile this endeavor will be.

Thank you for your response.

Agree. The more the merrier, so please all install this, since we don't want to end up in a Microsoft App store on Windows 8+.

The ebuild is in the gamerlay overlay. emerge layman then layman -a gamerlay. then emerge steam-meta make sure you edit your make.conf to allow the gamerlay overlay. and I think you have to unmask steam-meta.

Its now in pulic beta access is free to anyone. There is only one free game available on it yet, and the vast majority of games that do have linux clients havent been made available on it yet. Its kinda pointless until they add more games. But check it out. The more people who use the beta the more likey valve will add more games. For them its all about numbers as to how worthwhile this endeavor will be.

Thank you for your response.

Agree. The more the merrier, so please all install this, since we don't want to end up in a Microsoft App store on Windows 8+.

Download the .deb archive found here, extract[1] and put the following files into the same directory:
bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz (from the .deb archive)
steam.desktop (from the .deb archive)
steam (get the script here) [last update: 2013-03-24]
Make steam executable and run it. There are also a few icons in the .deb archive.
Note
Alternatively you can use the steam-meta ebuild from steam-overlay.

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Steam overlay works fine for me. emerge layman, layman -a steam, emerge steam-launcher. Just make sure you run it with "STEAMRUNTIME=1" before it for it to fully work unless you have an issue with steam or software licensees, which at that point you probably wouldn't be using steam.

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